medicine surgery

Hardcover. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray flexible cloth covers with rounded corners. Gilt lettering on spine. 680 pages, 280 b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, University of Vermont, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PILCHER on title page. The history of surgical education at the University of Vermont, from 1804 to 2008. Large format. Handsomely produced and illustrated. 444 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 207 pages. D. S. Halacy defines "cyborg" as a man who uses machines to increase his power; cyborg was born when humans began to make tools, no matter how primitive. Cyborg applies equally well to a laborer using an ordinary shovel and to an investigator handling radioactive material by manipulating giant pincers. The term even includes people with pacemakers, nylon blood vessels, and reinforced bones. The author does not limit himself only to surgery; he also writes about psychic drugs, myo-electric control, hypothermia, tissue culture, and space medicine.

Hardcover. Birmingham, Eng, Royal College of Surgeons, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bradshaw Lecture for 1894: A Study of His [Syme's] Influence and Authority on the Science and Art of Surgery During that Period. Syme was a leading surgeon of his day in Edinburgh's golden age of surgery. He was a master of surgical technique, a rival of Liston, a contemporary of Simpson and father-in-law and mentor of Joseph Lister. Hardcover, 27 pages. Red covers with gold lettering and decoration. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Light foxing to first and last pages. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Light soiling to rear cover, upper corner.

Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.4 Volumes: (SIGNED) In slipcase.Pioneers & Educators, 58 pagesDisease & Pathology, 66 pagesSurgery & Therapy, 62 pagesInstruments & Technology, 60 pagesLimited to 5000 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Gray, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.

Hardcover. NY, Epicenter Communications / Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. "contains over 230 of the most compelling photographs and images of healers in the battlefield, many of them in color, culled from over one hundred archives in more than a dozen countries... Beginning with Matthew Brady's photographs of surgery at Antietam during the Civil War... through two world wars, to Vietnam, the Gulf War, and regional struggles ongoing today." Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Routledge, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 289 pages, b&w illustrations. In the nineteenth century, major developments in internal surgery were due to operations on ovaries. Women bore the brunt of surgical experimentation and also reaped its rewards. Their need was great, but so was their compliance. From the first operation in America in 1809, much suffering was relieved at the expense of prolonged surgery endured by both black slaves and prosperous whites. Later, in the Victorian era, many surgeons looked at certain types of behavior as reasons for mutilating operations. Such procedures as "spaying" and clitoridectomies were performed to "cure" hysteria and masturbation, as well as questionable interventionalist surgery in pregnancy and childbirth which still continue today. Women Under the Knife is an extraordinary history, giving a vivid picture--medical, literary, and sociological--of Victorian society in America and Europe. Clean copy.